Riccardo Duranti is a translator, poet and narrator. He taught English Literature and Literary Translation at the University La Sapienza of Rome for a long time. He translated the collected works of Raymond Carver and many other authors including Roald Dahl, Ted Hughes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tibor Fischer, Philip K. Dick, Michael Ondaatje, John Berger, Olive Schreiner, Isaac B.Singer, Elizabeth Bishop, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry David Thoreau and Peter Orner. In 1996 he received the national prize for translation from the Ministry for Cultural Heritage.